Nitro laptops are best known for high-end gaming laptops. Acer Nitro 5 AN15-51-50PN Gaming Laptop is another kid in Nitro parent ship. This device is brilliant combination of top quality hardware with eye-catching metal design. As the name suggests it is gaming laptop, so every feature designed on the gaming theme. Gaming device require superb hardware to support heavy graphics and Acer Nitro 5 AN515-51-50PN does the same. This laptop is backed up with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 with 4GB Dedicated Memory graphics card which provides exceptional video quality with no hiccups & breakups whatsoever.
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Specifications
- CPU: 2.50 GHz Intel Quad-Core i5-7300HQ
- RAM: DDR4 8GB SDRAM (Upgradable to 32 GB)
- Graphics Card: 4GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
- Screen: 15.6” (1920 x 1080) 16:9 FHD
- HDD: 1TB
- SSD: 256GB
- Battery: 3220 mAh Lithium Ion
- OS: 64 Bit Windows 10 Home edition
Hardware & Performance
Acer Nitro laptop’s hardware is of top notch quality. Starting with the build there is Matte Black metal chassis. Under the hood, there is Intel Core i5-7300HQ processor supported with 8 GB DDR4 SDRAM which can be up-gradable up to 32 GB. Matte Black chassis is very well rounded up with red hinges. Touchpad also get red border which looks beautiful in this device.
This laptop provides you 15.6” of IPS capacitive full HD display. NVIDIA GeForce GTX graphic card provides support to all type of 3D and high-end games. Device is backed up with 3220 mAh battery which gives you approx. 7 hours of working time.
Performance wise this laptop handles every day to day activity, any surfing, watching videos or documents editing at will. On the gaming front, most of high-end games performed quite better in real time tests. Games like Aspire 7, Tomb Raider, FIFA or Need for Speed runs smoothly without much heating up of the CPU.
ACER Nitro 5 AN515-51-50PN Design
This laptop is designed in such a way that from the very first look it looks like a pure gaming console. Upper surface is not flat one as we normally see in laptop. There are two curves designed on the top for making it different from other laptops. This laptop runs on Black & Red theme which is unique. Black and Red color theme and matte black chassis makes this device a class apart. Upper designed curves inspired from Predator Helios gaming series.
The build quality is nice one to handle your day to day tasks. Red hinges look flashy. Keyboard and touch pad is quite comfortable to use as there is good rest space provided for it. All plastic material used to design this laptop which is quite prone to scratches.
Keyboard
Keyboard’s look is really catches you the most in this laptop. Red or you can say Burgundy flash to all keys is elegant. There is required free space provided in between the keys but directional arrow keys and numpad seems to be little congested one. Power button is also not treated differently but integrated as one more key to the keyboard at top right corner.
Typing keys are smooth. Red LEDs backlit the keyboard and looks brighter. Touchpad is also impressive. Swipes, gestures and taps works smoothly.
Display
Acer Nitro 5 AN515-51-50PN laptop provides you 15.6-inch IPS panel with full HD display. Color and display quality is good. You can easily perform you daily tasks, gaming or multimedia without any issues. Brightness is little bit low but contrast is impressive one.
The viewing angles of 150 degrees provides you pretty good picture quality. Every picture comes vivid and colorful. Full HD display the resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels which helps you in providing good and impressive gaming graphics.
Display is empowered with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 with 4GB Dedicated Memory which seems to be very good addition to this device. Gaming console requires good display, NVIDIA graphic card and 15.6 full HD does the same for this device.
Gaming Performance
Acer Nitro laptop is gaming laptop so gaming performance is must for this device. Games graphics looks stunning when they displayed on maximum settings. We played lot of games like Tom Raider, FIFA, cricket or Predator and frame rates doesn’t drop for long duration. There is no breakup and hiccups displayed for any game.
Battery
Another important factor for working or playing games for long hours rests on good battery life provided for the device. Nitro consists of Lithium Ion 3220 mAh battery which gives you approx. 7 hours of backup time. More brightness or contrast levels reduces it further. Watching videos can provide you approx. 5 hours again on the balanced settings altogether.
Cons
Battery backup of approx. 7 working hours is not up to the mark specially for gaming laptops. Spacing between keywords on keyboard is also little bit of issues with this device. Cooling fans get bit loud at times. IPS panel is not fully efficient.
Final Thoughts
This laptop falls under the bracket of $1000 exactly $849.99 price listed on Acer website which is already making headlines for this budget gaming laptop. Laptop’s design and build quality is phenomenal. Matte screen, red inner and outer theme, backlit red keyboard, latest hardware specifications, good battery life and aggressive pricing makes this laptop an obvious choice for game lovers. The matte IPS display provides good viewing angles.
